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Japanese officers cannibalized four American POWs on a Pacific island in 1944

4+ hour, 23+ min ago  (287+ words) In September 1944, nine American pilots were shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima, the largest island in the Bonin chain. Eight were captured. The ninth, who evaded capture, was 20-year-old George H. W. Bush. Because military and international law "did not specifically…...

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